Bo Derek Quotes

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

I kill a sofa for you and you go and sit in a chair?” Skulduggery asked. “I don’t think you appreciate the sacrifice that has been made for you.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

Customer service is the new marketing.

To change your language you must change your life.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

Embrace your inner lunatic.

Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.

Right, well, we've got to work out what we need. We've got to work out what we need, how we get it, and what we need to get to get what we need.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

Everyone fears rejection.

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

If you think the cost of education is high, think about ignorance.

During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.

A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.

The poem is itself a mirror.

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

The thing that is believed is a reality.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

Work hard, love what you do, put your best foot forward and never forget the kid in you.

The calm before the storm

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.” “Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.

I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

Are you kidding? I jumped off a building -- of course I'm hurt.

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

I'm just the biggest klutz. That's the problem. I don't get hurt doing cool things.

The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .